Traveling as a family with kids can be great fun. Your family will get closer as traveling enhances understanding and promotes bonding. It is also a learning experience for the young ones as they get more exposure to the world.
Families that travel together are stronger. However, traveling can bring some challenges and moments of indecisiveness. Choosing a single destination for a vacation can be challenging as everyone has their own preferences. Kids will be fighting over the window seat or aisle seat. These challenges might give you cold feet and sometimes even cancel plans.
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For this reason, we are going to discuss the best destinations to visit with your kids. A destination is perfect if it has everything a kid seeks. Some kids love seaside destinations. Some love amusement parks. Some love outdoor activities like camping or hiking.
It can be hard to please everyone in the family, which is why it is recommended to find a perfect destination that caters to everything for everyone. The following are some amazing destinations you must consider for the next family trip if you want to see everyone satisfied. A family includes people of all types and ages, and with these destinations, you will most likely succeed in satisfying them.
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Our ultimate travel tip
Before starting with our destinations, it is imperative to discuss how to plan a trip and manage it. Nobody likes an inconvenience especially on a family trip which is why it is important to make your dream travel trip perfect. Acquire the services of a renowned travel agency that can help you find flight tickets to your destination, suitable hotel accommodation, car rentals, and airport to hotel transfer, itinerary, and other details.
Traveling with family also means exceeding costs. In that situation, a travel agency can also make sure you are able to afford your trip by providing a budget travel package. If lucky, you may also avail cheap flight tickets on their platform. So be wise, and always book with a renowned travel agency.
Read more: Vacation Planning Tips For Parents With Small Children
Best destinations to visit with your kids:
1. France
France is a European country with amazing cultural cities and historical landmarks. Cities like Paris, Marseilles, Nice, Lyon, Bordeaux are perfect for exploration and learning history. They also have some of the nicest restaurants, amazing places to visit, and awesome things to do. You can also enjoy visiting amusement parks and world-famous monuments and museums such as the Eiffel Tower, and The Louvre.
If you and your kids love a little bit of adventure on the trip, the French Alps and surfing on the coast of Nice is a perfect choice. This country has towering mountains for hiking, skiing, snowboarding, and other kinds of adventure.
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2. Hawaii, USA
Hawaii is the westernmost state in the United States of America. It is located in the Pacific Ocean and spread over multiple islands. The landscape setting is beautiful beyond the description of words. There are rainforests, waterfalls, volcanoes, mountains, white-sand beaches, and surfing waters. There are also cultural cities and towns, resorts, exquisite wildlife, and more.
You can take your kids on a beautiful trail of Mauna Kea, the highest point of Hawaii, or any other trail through the forest. You can also take them on surfing, or swimming in the ocean. Vacationing in Hawaii is going to be a memorable experience for you and your kids.
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3. Costa Rica
The Central American country is rich with exotic wildlife that includes colorful birds, reptiles, mammals, and other beautiful creations of nature. It is an ideal family destination that has everything a person seeks for themselves and the kids.
There are many opportunities to explore lush green jungles, rainforests, scenic hikes, other cities, and towns. You can do interesting adventures such as zip linings, kayaking, and swimming. This country is truly beautiful and tailor-made for you and your family. So plan a trip to Costa Rica, and enjoy every moment with your family.
4. Pakistan
Pakistan is a South Asian country with diverse landscapes and cultures. In the south, there are beautiful beaches and coastal and fishing cities of Karachi, Gwadar, Ormara, Pasni, and Thatta. You can find lots of amazing things to see and do in this part of the country.
If you go towards the North, you can enjoy the beautiful lush green plains of Punjab and hills of the famous salt range. The cities of Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, and Islamabad are some of the most beautiful and historic places in the world. Food is amazing in Pakistan, and some families are known to enjoy food tourism there.
The northern edge of Pakistan is full of some of the highest mountains on this planet. The four mighty mountain ranges of Himalayas, Karakoram, Hindukush, and Pamir offer beautiful sceneries, high altitude lakes, hiking trails, wildlife, alpine meadows, cultural towns of Chitral, Gilgit, and Skardu, and much more.
Pakistan is one of the most underrated and unexplored countries in the world. Take this opportunity to visit it with your family.
5. India
India is another country in South Asia. It is the second-largest country with respect to the population in the whole world. The landscape and culture are diverse beyond your imaginations. You can enjoy beautiful beaches along the coast of the whole country, as well as some hill stations, mountains, rivers, exotic wildlife, national parks, amusement parks, and cities.
India is huge, and there are many historical and cultural places all across the country. Take your family there for a visit, and you will have many opportunities with them to enjoy and make your trip memorable.
Read more: 10 Best Places to visit in India
6. Australia
Australia is one of the best places on Earth to visit with your family. With exclusive landscape and wildlife, nothing beats this continental country in tourism. The cities are filled with remarkable historic and important sites, and there is ample wildlife to see all over the country.
You can also enjoy the exploration of the whole country in a private vehicle such as an RV. Coastal cities and towns also offer some amazing beaches and coral reefs to explore. Nothing beats an Aussie trip with the family.
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These are great recommendation for us. We are planning to have a family trip with kids after this pandemic crisis. Thanks for this.
I’m a fan of tropical islands – warm weather + the beach! And Hawaii is definitely on the bucket list!
France is deffenetly good to visit with kids, because of Disneyland.
Kids should be ages who are already appreciative and can understand so it will be considered an enjoyable and memorable trip where they can learn too. But most of the time, we just love the beach then relax and get tan
Costa Rica is such a beautiful place and has been on my bucket list for a while now. I can totally relate to the fact that traveling as a family is great for bonding between everyone.
Wonderful places to go with kids or not with kids. I have no kids but I would looooooooooooove to go to Hawaii!
So you definitely threw me for an interesting loop when I saw Pakistan on the list! I mean the other ones on this list of best destinations with kids seemed pretty obvious since they were all relatively modern with a mix of outdoor and indoor activities. But when I saw you really recommended Pakistan, I was very pleased, I perhaps would start them off with India first if you are coming from a “first world” country so as to get them used to the crowds of people. But I like this list a lot!
Once pandemic is over, my fiancé and I will probably go on vacation to my parents in Norway. Right now their borders are closed off so I can’t visit them! Can’t wait to travel again!
After years and years of travelling with kids I honestly couldn’t say which countries are ‘best’. I think it depends on many different factors – one of them being the kids 😀
I second Australia. It has a lot of fun adventures for the kids to do, easy to get around and very safe.
Thanks for these recommendation! We would love to visit the rest of the country, after Australia 🙂
I don’t have kids yet but France is one of my dream to visit because of their beautiful tourist spots and the eiffel tower so lovely.
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some great choice of counties and I would pick costa Rica and Australia definitely. True planning for a family trip is critical and as you said, a well-established travel agency always helps
Costa Rica is such a beautiful place and my kids enjoyed our vacation there. Australia is on my list of places to visit.
such a great number of locations, i would love for things to get back to normal so then i can travel again
I really want to take my kids to Hawaii. My daughter has been begging to go since she was 5.
These are the dream destinations I’ve ever dreamed of since I was a kid. Hopefully I’ve got the chance to visit each one.
I completely agree that traveling as a family is great for family bonding. I’m also glad that India is included in the list…it’s in my list too.
I love the tips and advice. Thanks
I agree Pakistan is under rated and under explored, especially with kids. Nice post
Now that our kids are getting older with my youngest of three being four years old we want to travel more. I like the Hawaii idea!!
All these destinations look and sound amazing. One of the coolest thing about it for me is you can travel to these places with your kids and have a lot of fun sightseeing with them.